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It was warm. Heat radiated off of the canyon walls. The temperature on my car gauge stretched into the low 80's.
Geez, what's this?
Sweat.
I've avoided Bear Trap Canyon, outside of winter, for decades. It can be hot. Dry. Theres snakes. The last summer hike that I took, I saw seven rattlers, on the trail. That's plenty for one day, don't you think?
Then there's ticks, poison ivy too.
It's really not that bad. One does need to watch where one places important appendages though.

Ah, poison ivy. It's incorrectly been called poison oak. What we have here is western poison ivy. It grows as an upright vine and can be found along the banks of the Madison. While fishing, I've also seen it along the Missouri and Clark Fork Rivers in Montana, the Selway, Lochsa and Clearwater in Idaho, and the Grande Ronde in Washington. I still have flashbacks to childhood summers spent broken out and itchy from rashes. The rash on unmentionable body parts i…